Indian security personnel and bystanders
carry an injured man from the offices of the Dinakaran
Newspaper in Madurai, some 350kms south of Chennai, May 09,
after an attack on the building by political activists. Three
newspaper employees died after the mob armed with stones and
petrol bombs, responding to an unfavourable survey in the
paper of local politician M.K. Azhagiri, attacked the office
of the Tamil-language daily. Two engineers and a security
guard died of suffocation, unable to escape because protesters
had locked the building, district collector S.S Jawahar told
reporters. AFP

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A key Kashmiri separatist said on Wednesday that
he hoped India and Pakistan would learn from the Northern Ireland
power-sharing deal.

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Shots fired at home of lawyer for Pakistan’s CJ

Unidentified assailants fired shots at the home
of a lawyer for Pakistan’s suspended chief justice Thursday,
injuring no one but adding to a sense of crisis rocking President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s hold on power.